Background Job Scheduling Issue.

[Former Member]

Hello Friends,

My issue is regarding Understanding & executing periodic background job . 

I have created a Variant than created a background job for Chart of account report & scheduled it for Daily.  After the scheduled time i checked in SM37 it shows my Job as Released & when i flag it and try to check the log it says :- No log entries are available for this Job. 

I need your guidance to rectify this issue and understand how does it work.  If a Report job has been scheduled Daily than does the user have to run SM37 everyday and how to view the output?

Thanks in advance,

Pallavi Nathan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pallavi,

The transaction to schedule background jobs is SM36.

• Execute transaction SM36 and give a job name in the job name field.
• Define the job's priority : High : Class A, Medium : Class B, Low : Class C
• Choose when the job is to start by choosing "Start condition", periodic, daily etc..
• Then define the job steps, by defining the ABAP program with variant to be used for every step.
• Save the job and it is scheduled to run at the specific time that you have scheduled.

In SM37, you can see the status of your background job. User don't need to execute this every time.

Now, there can be several reasons, why you are not seeing any output in your program. For this the best way would be to execute your program in foreground with your variant that you have given for background processing, if you are getting data output in foreground you would get the same for background processing as well.

BR, Kavita

[Rushikesh_Yeole]

You can view the job log only for finished and cancelled once.

as per scheduled time, it will get execute without any interruptions.

DO not disturb released job unless timing needs to altered.

Just daily check finished and cancelled ones.